Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,780, Isaac Durant, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Durant, Isaac
L. 34,780
CONTENTS

Copies copied July 1. 1835 & sent to S. Dana,
Notation on back of document: Notation on back of document, March 1821 to Isaac Durant, Groton, Mass.
16. 014 R
Massachusetts
Isaac Durant
of Wiltshire in the state of Mass who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel M. Jackson of the Mass line, for the term of nine months.
Enscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th of July, 1818 and paid to Samuel Dana Esq. Groton, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of March 1818 85.86 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4th Dec 1819. 48.00
$133.86
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
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Isaac Durant

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Be it remembered that on this thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Eighteen, before me Samuel Dana Chief justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex being a Court of Records duly established by law within the Commonwealth aforesaid, comes Isaac Derrant of Littleton in said County of Middlesex and on oath declares that he served in the war of the Revolution against the Common Enemy from the space of six years and six months - He served at the commencement of that war, eight months at Cambridge - and then enlisted upon the Continental establishment for one year under Capt Samuel Gilbert in late William Prescotts Regiment, with this Regiment he went to New York, did a years service and was discharged. The next was procured by the Town of Lexington in Mass ts in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy eight in the Spring, to go into the Continental Army he went to Concord and was mustered as S r James Barrett proceeded to West Point, and was there placed in a Company called the Major's Company commanded by Major Ruth, in Col. Michael Jacksons Regiment in the Massachusetts line, in this Company he continued until his time expired, and returned home to Lexington. The next went to Rhode Island some months in the Company of Capt. Nathan Smith in Col. Lamb's Regiment - In the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and eighty one or two he was hired by the Town of Boston in Mass ts to go into the Army upon the Continental establishment, he was mustered by Lt. Col. Topkins, and ordered to West Point, and placed in the Company of Capt. Robert in the 1 st Mass ts Regiment commanded by Col. Shepard. In this Company, and in this Regiment, afterwards commanded by Col. Henry Jackson he did duty until January One Thousand Eighteen hundred and Eighteen, when he received a discharge from Maj. Genl. Knox - He is now fifty eight years old, destitute of property and by time or accident has lost all his discharge & by reason of his reduced circumstances in which he stands in need of assistance from his Country for his support.
Isaac Derrant
This made taken, subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid at Littleton in said County of Middlesex
Sam d Dana

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Isaac Durant
1911
July 19
AK

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Isaac Durant resident in Westford - in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 14.014 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
" WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
" I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the " 18th March, 1818, Isaac Durant  late a " Private - in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the " Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight " dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of " April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen - " Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty ninth " day of June - one thousand eight hundred and " nineteen   L. S. 
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
" Real estate - none.
Personal estate. viz.
  2 tables of the value of $2.00   7 chairs 1.75 old brass kettle 2.00 4.75   1 crane .50 crockery 1.00 1.50   cabinet makers tools 5.00 1 pig 1.00 6.00   pot teakettle & baking kettle 1.50 1.50   $15.75   3 pine chests 1.50 looking glass .25 1.75   17.50 
And the said Isaac Durant having been first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served as a private in the Revolutionary war six years and two months - three of said years in the 4 th Regiment of the Massachusetts line commanded by

Col. Shephard, was in the battle of Monmouth all which services are more particularly set forth in his original declaration on file in the War Office dated April 13, 1818. that he is sixty two years of age a cabinet maker by occupation has lost one eye and is unable to perform much labour that his family consists of the following persons only viz. his wife Helena aged 59 years and his daughter Caroline aged 14 years and that he did not keep house for fourteen years previous to obtaining a pension.
Isaac Durant.
Sworn & declared to before me
L. Dana Judge No. 4

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
" I, Isaac Durant do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled " an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD. Isaac Durant.
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Isaac Durant took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me,
Samuel Dana. Judge of said Court. //
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is seventeen dollars fifty
cents In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 1820.
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

34780 Rev INVALID.
File No. 84,780
Isaac Durant
Rev Rev Ind
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 492
[Arrangement of 1870.]

This may certify to whom it may concern that Isaac Durant a resident in the Town of Pepperell County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who it is said was a Soldier in the revolutionary Army, is a poor man in indigent circum- stances.
Pepperell July 6 th 1819
John Walton } Select. Abel Fessett } men of Wm. Buttrick } Pepperell

Isaac Durant
9 mo. in Mr Jackson's apt.
Adm.?
The Judge's Certificate as to indigent circumstances mailed

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen - Personally appeared Isaac Durant - and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed.
from which it appears to me, that the said Isaac Durant did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months.
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen . - - -
Sam d Dana
I Samuel Dana Chief justice above named, Do further Certify that Isaac Durant, who is described in the above Certificate as a poor man in indigent circumstances & that he stands in need of assistance from his Country for support - - - July 5 th 1819
Sam d Dana